Not surprising in the least. We already know that the people who add content to wikipedia are not the same as the people in power. But worse than that there's a pervasive failure to understand that within the wikipedia moderator and management community.
The mods and admins have put a lot of their effort into pissing off the greater community with edit wars and rampant deletionism. It shouldn't come as a surprise that this would eventually take its toll on discouraging commenters.
The mods and admins have put a lot of their effort into pissing off the greater community with edit wars and rampant deletionism. It shouldn't come as a surprise that this would eventually take its toll on discouraging commenters.